Friday, September 9, 2016

I LOVE Pennies

The most common way to save extra money, is to match up a sale item and a
manufacturer’s coupon. However, if you can find a STORE issued coupon
and a manufacturer’s coupon that match-it’s even better. This is why
County Market’s Penny Pinchers make us special to coupon users.

Each month we issue a coupon booklet at County Market for items that
are deeply discounted. It’s our monthly Penny Pincher booklet. We want
you to find a manufacturer’s coupon to match. These booklets come out
around the 3rd week of each month. They are delivered by direct mail.
Your postal delivery person will be able to tell you which day the
coupons are arriving to your mailbox.

Stores do not get lots of extra copies of the Penny Pincher booklets.
Part of the contracts made with the vendors featured is that they issue
all booklet by direct mail, and one per household. Likewise, your postal
person is not allowed to hand you extra copies. Neighbors become GOOD
neighbors when they share their unwanted pennies!

When you use your Penny Pincher coupon, the deduction or price
adjustment is scanned off of a store barcode. That will only happen for
the number of items that the coupon allows. For example, if it says,
Limit 2, but you buy 5, 2 will be discounted, the registers will
automatically charge full price for the other 3 items. These coupon
discounts are set PER TRANSACTION.

I’m often asked about the usage of multiple Penny Pinchers. Yes, if you
shop another day, with a duplicate Penny Pincher, it will clear to your
purchase without any problems. We do have a place in our stores for
swapping coupons. So if you find that you really want to shop twice and
use a penny pincher offer again, it will clear. This is not a secret,
many of you know this.
Our members will trade Pennies amongst themselves. I often want extra
kids foods, and other members want foods I do not plan to buy. We are
allowed to trade them at club, or place extra coupons in our swap bins.

The next step is finding a good Manufacturer’s match to the store
coupon. Usually I find around 4 per month that make a good matches. . Be
sure to take a look at our print N Save blog that comes out on Mondays. I often put links to penny pincher printables in that
section.

Sometimes you’ll need to try a coupon and see if it works with the Penny
Pincher offer. Often our penny pinchers will be an OPEN coupon offer.
There is a big difference in using an open ended offer like, “Good on
Johnsonville Meats” versus a closed offer like, “Good only on
Johnsonville Chicken brats.” The County Market offer is for many
Johnsonville types of sausages, including Chicken. By using both the MF
Chicken offer, and the Store Open ended coupon, we stay correct and
Legal.

However, if the offers were reversed, and the County Market offer was
Closed, and only for the Chicken Variety, and we had a Pork Italian
sausage MF closed coupon, we would not match and the offer would not
work. The hardest part of couponing, is figuring out what the coupon
writer intended! If an offer is good on over 50 products, we will never
know if it will work until we scan it.

My personal advice is to try it and see. The worst case scenario is
that you will be told, “Sorry this coupon does not apply to this
product.” No harm in that.

Penny Pinchers set us apart from other grocery stores. We offer more
than just sales discounts each week, we offer true deep savings designed
to allow a coupon user to really maximize your savings potential. Look
for pennies every month in your mail.

All internet coupon print limits are subjective. At the time of this email coupons were available for print. If the daily or weekly print limit has been reached, the coupon will be automatically pulled from the websites. You can try to print again tomorrow. All coupons listed are not available in our stores. We list them so you can order or find them to save you money. Check with clipping services, trade boards, or ebay to find coupons not in your store. It is our intent to help you find as many savings opportunities as possible. Enjoy!

Coupon Crash Course

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This blog is intended to assist our customers in planning their coupon shopping. All entries are good for the day they are published. Our Wednesday coupon blog shows items on sale on Wednesdays. Your store may be a Wed-Tues sale week, it may be a Sun-Sat week. You will need to use the information according to your store's advertised dates. All coupons matched are a guide to coupons available. This does not mean that every store has every coupon. You however will be aware of that the coupon exists and can start your "Hunt" for savings. All print N Save links are available at the time of publication.